Road, located in the civil Parish of Bet Bet and straddling the Bet Bet Creek itself (thus located in the successors to the road boards, the Shire of Tullaroop and the Shire of Bet Bet) was proclaimed, and named Timor. Chinaman's Flat was initially the larger community, but as gold-winning became more complex and capital intensive, people moved to be closer to the huge mining operations exploiting the mainly north-trending leads nearer to and beyond Bet Bet Creek. Increased numbers of permanent buildings were constructed around the junction of Timor Road and Bet Bet Creek Road. Following some years in short-term premises, the land for the permanent premises of State School 1207 Timor, on Bet Bet Creek Road on the Chinaman's Flat border, was "temporarily reserved from sale, etc" on 15 April 1878. The current school building opened in 1880, and was later substantially extended in weatherboard. In the areas closer to Maryborough, an increasing percentage of "reefers" in the remaining population were working the booming Leviathan mine and several smaller parallel gold reefs. The community and Chinaman's Flat School were renamed Leviathan Reef. The school closed in 1902, with some pupils transferring to S.S.1207 Timor, and others to S.S.848 Alma The local names Chinaman's Flat and Central Chinamans faded with disuse, but the name of the main drainage course, Flat Creek, is still used. Establishment of Bowenvale A "Bowen Park" in Timor was declared on 26 January 1874 probably after George Bowen, Governor of Victoria 1873–79. The first use of the name "Bowenvale," for sections of Chinaman's Flat seems to have been before November 1877. It was applied to the electoral division of the Electoral District of Maryborough and Talbot for that area. The Electoral Registrar was an Edward Beedon of Chinaman's Flat. Eventually the long main road and surrounding urban strip of Chinaman's Flat that abutted Timor at Bet Bet Creek Road, and had been populated and mined for decades, was surveyed, and on 11 January 1887 gazetted as an unnamed town. The documentation proclaiming its name as Bowenvale has not yet been found. Late C19th Century and 20th Century Gradually the deep mines were overwhelmed by underground water, in spite of increasingly large pumping plants. The mines used long beam engine water pumps, with beams of up to 30 tons. Two of their massive stone fulcrums are still standing. With the loss of their surrounding superstructure, over